Rare historical photos they didn’t show you in school (26 photos)

The 2,800 year old kiss. These two skeletons locked in an embrace were discovered in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran in 1972. The skeletons were both young (20s or 30s) and had no signs of poor health.

Bureau of Reclamation

Men standing in a pipe during the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. The reservoir created by the dam, called Lake Meade, is the largest reservoir in the world.

The detonation of a nuclear bomb at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, 1945. A number of ships were contaminated by the radioactivity in the water and had to be sunk several miles off the coast of San Francisco.

Testing a bulletproof vest in Washington DC, 1923. The vest is made of ballistic nylon and provided protection against older firearms as well as ricochets and fragments. The bulletproof vest wouldn’t be able to stop modern ammo until the 1960s with the invention of kevlar.

The first photograph of Abraham Lincoln, 1846, taken when he was the Congressman-elect from Illinois.

BBC

The last photo taken of The Titanic before it sank. The snapshot was taken by passengers who traveled on only the first leg of the journey.

Howard Carter (kneeling) opens the door of King Tut’s burial chamber for the first time in 1923.

Library of Congress

Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The Union held off the Confederacy’s attempt at invading the north, but both sides took heavy losses — 23,000 combined casualties.

The first atomic bomb with an unidentified man shortly before the test.